i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared a pakistani girl who survived a u.s. drone attack travels to washington to tell congress how her home was destroyed and her grandmother was killed. also this week angered by n.s.a. spying and delegation fails to get explanations from u.s. officials well germany turns to edward snowden to get answers about the tapping of chancellor merkel's phone. is going to repeat it continuously we hear from n.s.a. leaks reporter glenn greenwald who says u.s. intelligence will continue to harvest data despite outrage and the public and its

from the public and its allies. and behind the barbed wire reports from inside one of my prison where over a dozen detainees are still on hunger strike in a bitter protest over there in definite detention and mistreatment. back at the top stories for the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly on. a pakistani family who lost their grandmother in a cia drone strike traveled to washington this week to testify before congress he's going to take on was at the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the first place. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this

briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of growth strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing through on appeal were twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed that's the full pardon. i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases but when this the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed at any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so

glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america i have no idea why our village in my house to talk to. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victim so brown strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand population of. users. in a concentration camp. this is off what kind of. a show on how

long for someone. as you be and this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's a for a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will take notice in washington i'm going to check out . the u.s. claims few civilians have been killed by the three hundred seventy six drone attacks which have been launched over the past decade local reports however suggest at least nine hundred innocent people including up to two hundred children have been killed documentary filmmaker robert greenwald took the story of the riemann family's inspiration for his latest movie and says the public doesn't understand the real consequences of drones. people want to believe in santa claus and they also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading

that the drones were killing only high value targets represented in a minute threat that doesn't make sense it's just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which was part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warrant there so people said it doesn't matter as to what is the you know the families making to all kinds of americans people who have a mother will have a father and who look at them and can't justify the killing that we've done and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan that agrees that the way to solve problems is by invading occupying and droning we have to change all over. and the drone campaign in pakistan may have thwarted a chance for peace earlier this week a u.s. strike killed the taliban leader in pakistan just as the government was preparing

to start negotiations the details on that coming up a little later in the program. but first a group of e.u. diplomats who travel to washington this week seeking explanations about the n.s.a. spying activities left without hans's the m.e.p. delegation complained the u.s. provided no clarification over eavesdropping on world leaders and whether the white house had any knowledge of it and described america's response as feeble and warned it could aggravate relations specifically has been angered by the tapping of chancellor angela merkel's phone germany's considering asking the man behind all these leaks edward snowden to help explain what happened the german green m.p. met the whistleblower to ask him to give evidence to parliament. basically because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years

for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure you can tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. the n.s.a. revelations have triggered something of a blame game in washington secretive state john kerry pointed the finger at the intelligence services claiming the n.s.a. ran certain operations without letting the white house know. technology is there. oh. so you carrie referring there to spying by automatic pilot while the head of the n.s.a.

said the country it is policy makers not the intelligence services who select targets and journalist glenn greenwald who's been releasing snowden's leaks says despite the scandal the n.s.a. will not scale back its activities. and. is going to repeat itself continuously for the next several weeks or months almost every country around the world be very clear objective review is to not just go but to keep it for as long as they can so the big time. if your citizens are here you are also. doing in terms of. and had to r.t. dot com for more reaction and opinion on the n.s.a. leaks including an interview with an encryption specialist to talk about his mission to resist spying and bring privacy.

after eight months over a dozen guantanamo bay detainees remain on hunger strike in protest of the indefinite detention and the use of torture in one thousand being force fed in a brutal procedure that the u.s. military continues to defend. this report from inside the prison center. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own on torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expected they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right now we have the court system to time and that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release

but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. furnace and water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy camp delta house as a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it and we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is the agent who will

numb the area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of you seem to like it in fact some of our patients are so. used to this they will describe which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described it as torture the restraint chair they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the places that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most and that i have heard that they don't

even believe in what this thing anymore because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me request declined the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. to the chair legs to the ground. strap across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint

patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank you meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem that detainees have behaved better there will be warded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and. cuba.

this is the week. ahead a toxic disarmament the syrian government dismantles its chemical weapons production facilities but the whole process hangs in the balance while some rebel groups refuse to take part in the process. what. we could have taken place without the full consent of the americans and what. about this. spring is a crisis moment in politics it is the moment in which. the people

on the ground in those countries for example in egypt there is a nationalist swing towards. the people rising up again. this week syria met the first ambitious deadline on its path to chemical disarmament it has successfully dismantled the facilities used to produce toxic weapons but the tough task of eliminating the existing stockpiles lays ahead made harder by the war that continues to rage reports now from damascus.

dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate. whatever we can but you know this is a very complicated the process complications fueled by so-called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate for an inspectors have managed to visit twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't verbally blame the

rebels damascus insists it's doing its share until now. those. sites being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling. the groups kill them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission ever undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapons stockpile in the midst of a civil war story with syria actually stopped producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed off two rockets with sarin gas were fired at damascus the suburbs those responsible are still at large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed or removed

its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r.t. damascus. some opposition groups stand accused of trying to hamper the russia a u.s. brokered disarmament process and middle east analysts sharmeen the wyly believes the syrian government is happy to get rid of its chemical weapons because it removes an excuse for outside intervention. but there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons we've certainly seen in iraq and turkey rebels being apprehended with chemical agents components of chemical weapons in their possession. really important point and this is something i heard from a syrian government official earlier this year the syrian government has first some time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in

israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community has come together to in fact to read them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists just to remind you we've always got more stories on our website including facing up to reality the operator of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is forced to turn to the u.s. for help in cleaning up the dangerous facility more details are. closely following the situation in and around the plant. plus party boats the secret behind google's floating structures in san francisco bay it's revealed the four story high barges will travel up and down america's coastline promoting the new wearable google glasses with details on that had online. dot com. the peace process in pakistan has been derailed off

the u.s. drone strike killed the country's taliban leader this week it happened just a day before a government delegation was set to start negotiations with the group of countries now on a higher security alert over fears militants could retaliate pakistan's interior minister accused washington of sabotaging efforts to end violence and a local expert has told us that he believes it's the pakistani people who will pay the price. the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because with the record taliban pakistan ready to precondition the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued so anybody who is going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan and not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all

rolled into one without any authority the french government proposed eco taxes hit a nerve with the public has thousands hit the streets calling for it to be scrapped immediately. i. different region of brittany has been rocked by protests which turn violent police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse angry crowds hurling rocks and bottles in response eco tax imposes levies on trucks weighing more than three and a half tons has been suspended amid concerns that it could drive companies out of business. at least six people including one child have died after a ferry capsized off the coast of thailand near the popular resort of petaca twenty eight remain unaccounted for reports of up to two hundred even though the maximum limit is one hundred fifty the accident has been blamed on an engine problem which caused passengers to rush to the top of the vessel forcing it to flip on its side.

a silent protest has been held outside the russian embassy in london in support of a documentary maker arrested along with thirty greenpeace activists two demonstrators went inside the building to speak to russian representatives brann was filming the greenpeace attempt to board a russian oil rig in the arctic ocean in september moscow said the protests pose a threat to the crew and all involved are waiting to stand trial on charges of hooliganism. because this arrest site is being seen in the skies across the world a hybrid so the eclipse where the moon the books the sun either fully or partially at its peak the sun is blocked out for almost a whole minute you can see this in many parts of africa europe and the united states but if you have to be in the middle of the atlantic ocean you'll get the best view a growing number of britons in desperate need of housing are embracing the concept of less is more it was reported there causing a rethink of what could and should be considered. when addressing the issue of

affordable housing one london charities been thinking outside the box but when it comes to the solution it's inside that counts meet the my i pad shipping container doubles as a low cost. renting in london is particularly expensive and once again we're seeing rents hit record highs so we're going to go up and take a look inside and see what this is all about. you know how. they feel very much for having us yes this is my palace yeah this is the my pad as you can see we've got a desk here inside the my pads been designed to provide these who need it most with affordable independent living and just seventy five pounds a week the my i pad certainly cheap by london standards i think it's difficult for anybody right now to get. comfortable accommodation and

a good price without you know paying extortionate amounts of around the projects the brainchild of timothy payne. this is essentially this is a shipping container from china this is a stripping. bread you cover over a great big boat the projects already received planning permission and funding is expected to come from the greater london authority initially this project will be soley for young people the charity works with society just takes the. place of for money to them because the moment they get into work they can't afford to live in a hostel and they can't afford to live anywhere else because doesn't make any moral or any economic sense. as an idea. is brilliantly innovative this been designed as a quick fix now is planning permission for thirty more things to be built next year but predictions say that if bracing continues at its coverage rate of building them

by twenty twenty and we face a shortfall of two million homes in the u.k. so you can see the scale of the problem and it's why what started out as a local temporary solution could end up becoming a more permanent fixture surface r.t. london you've been watching the weekly here in r.t. coming up we've got a look at the world of business in venture capital but before we go to some of the week's images from the olympic flames record breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days now before the winter games in sochi olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station. which is passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north. if you get an r.t. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from you then pick merab. the

office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussion scoring to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got to get rid of the word blanket because they gave the native americans disease still blankets to kill them and they bought their land with beads so we've got to get rid of that word to remember the

separate drinking fountains and segregated buses based on race in america yes so we can't say those words anymore either or we might just possibly remember something bad which could lead to the ultimate horror of the modern western world unpleasant thoughts we see a lot of western countries the term citizen becoming offensive because it makes resident foreigners legal or illegal feel like second class people well compared to actual citizens legally you kind of are if you're offended that you are not treated as a citizen of seattle why not assimilate become a citizen of the united states join the team but that's just my opinion. to captivate british prime minister david palmer anything that will see things outside of the box and outside of. the past for the country does have to

cement on that. we've also got the first call in eighty seven when the line of the story will be discussed in the implications of that could be used to come out in house of estimates to show him thomas he's poised to the business press to tell us what it's been up to now the ball goes rush over the fences which is also supposed to come but that's just tough luck mr cameron. so he's hoping to attract muslim money by becoming the first country to issue an exam a bond outside of the muslim world the u.k. hopes to offer a two hundred million pound islam friendly bond known as a cook as early as next it it will conform to the law which bans interest and gambling the prime minister is also planning to launch a new index boyko explains exactly why mr cameron is so we go to this part of the world the british muslims contribute at least thirty billion

pounds to the economy here while u.k. banks offer more islamic services than in any other western country in fact islamic funding has propped up some of the capital's largest developments including the shot on the olympic village but critics say the welcoming approach doesn't go beyond investment british politicians have in the past rejected proposals to recognise shari'a lower in certain areas with large muslim populations while the recent debate in parliament centered on whether or not to penalize local shari'a courts which helped british muslims result family issues when a small group of locals tried to impose sharia law in london's east end the response was that of horror but when it comes to the potential gold mine that is muslim money the city of london's lord mare recently said that islamic finance should be as british suspicion chips and the f.a. cup final reporting from the city of london i'm poly boy thank you that we're going to stay in london for now and.